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Text from the 1830 novel The King's Own by Captain Frederick Marryat
Images synthesized using various neural network AI programs such as Stable Diffusion, Dall-E, Midjourney and Disco Diffusion
Layout, image editing, panel placement and comic concept by Cadmus
Thanks to Philpax for moral support, editing and computational resources~
A great blog about Captain Marryat is marryat92 run by clove_pinks, who inspired me to start reading Marryat’s works
My other neural network AI image synthesis works may be found at teuthisdreams on tumblr.
Notes:
- <naval-portrait> is a Textual Inversion style (essentially a super prompt) trained on public domain pictures of 1700s and 1800s oil painting portraits of naval officers
- Text in comic panels is screenshot from The King’s Own by Captain Marryat, which is public domain - version used is on Google Books
- Fonts used: Crimson Text and Lora, both from Google Fonts, both under the Open Fonts License
- Every artist name cited is in the public domain
- “trending on artstation” is used in some of the prompts, but I’ve seen evidence that it doesn’t actually have a noticeable effect on Stable Diffusion, so that could easily be taken out - was used because Disco Diffusion is very bad at composition
- Neural network image synthesis is fairly bad at historical accuracy.
- At one point Marryat directly references the poem “Night-Thoughts” by Edward Young, published between 1742 and 1745 - an image of the poem’s front page is used, and then contrasted with a “corrupted” version run through Stable Diffusion (page 10 of this comic)
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